OnStartups

JUNE 7, 2021

I’ve decided I’m going to invest $1 million in BitClout the blockchain-based, crypto-currency powered social network that is all the rage (at least within some circles). Example: I’ll be investing $100,000 in @bitswap (and here, I mean buying equity/shares in the startup). Invest in $dharmesh (my own creator coin on BitClout).

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and in many ways, that rings true for startups – especially when it comes to finding your foothold in the market. We’ve created a list of the 10 best startup conferences to attend in 2024. But first, let’s take a look at what these conferences can mean for startups.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and in many ways, that rings true for startups – especially when it comes to finding your foothold in the market. We’ve created a list of the 10 best startup conferences to attend in 2024. But first, let’s take a look at what these conferences can mean for startups.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2024

As a startup, you can look at it a few ways. They differ from startups because they’re Fortune 100 companies with a lot of legacy, incumbency, and regulation. The most interesting innovation is often from the teams that understand the problem the most. As startup and tech leaders, we need empathy for where they’re coming from.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2022

We are delighted to share that we are officially launching our new program for fast-growing, venture-backed startups. Over 5,000 startups from top incubators around the world use Intercom. It is an essential element of the startup stack as founders optimize their customer engagement”.

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SaaStr

JUNE 17, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of SaaS, Venture Capital, Bootstrapping, and Valuations – understanding market trends and investment patterns is critical. We’ll explain Jason’s take on the recent market fluctuations, highlighting major deals that shaped investment patterns and their effects on valuation trends.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

There is an “AI Innovation Pause” in B2B SaaS AI overall is one of the greatest forces of nature we’ve seen in technology and software. AI is an unstoppable force but we may see the innovation side take a partial pause in 2024. Seat contractions and app layoffs are behind us.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

We had a great one last time with Harpinder Singh, Partner at Innovation Endeavors. What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? For over two decades, Creandum has specialized in early-stage investing, Seed and Series A. Check that out here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? We invest across all stages — seed, early venture, and growth, with a primary focus on early-stage. Some of our most notable investments include Figma, Datadog, Discord, Adyen and Roblox.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? Email startups raised 22% less.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2018

In December 2017, the amount raised in ICOs nearly equaled the amount raised by Series A investments globally. The technology innovation catalyzed by Bitcoin and Blockchain is creating many multibillion dollar economies quickly. Startups can raise hundreds of millions of dollars on an idea.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

with Yamini Jain, Co-founder at Global roots inc How to manage a SAAS startup effectively? with Aashish Krishna Kumar, Head of GTM at Togai Sales Enablement 2.0 – Elevate Rep Performance with Divanshu Goyal, Sales at GTM Buddy Common scaling pains for SaaS businesses and how to overcome them.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This innovation reinvigorates very early-stage IPOs. US VC investment falls from $275b in 2022 to $200b in 2023 & sustains at about $200-220b in 2024 as LP interest in venture attenuates after the euphoria in 2020 & 2021. We see the first broadly successful tokens with dividends (likely outside the US).

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

Cloud LLM Infrastructure Microsoft OpenAI Snowflake Nvidia Databricks Mosaic Google Anthropic Oracle Cohere Amazon HuggingFace Microsoft has invested over $10b, plus significant development efforts to work with OpenAI. Google has invested hundreds of millions into Anthropic , complementing its efforts with Google Brain.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The problem with selling your startup is the long exit time. Who wants to wait almost a decade to buy a startup when the face of tech is evolving at such a rapid pace? That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. Micro startup acquisitions. Micro Startup Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care?

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Today, we joke in Startupland that a startup is never raising and always raising. Now every 6 months or every 3 months some startups receive termsheets valuing their business. Access is the scarcest resource in Startupland , the access to buy shares of hypergrowth startups.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 28, 2017

All the while, product innovation stalls. For a startup, whose competitive advantage is speed, this innovation hiatus has an enormous and unquantifiable cost. Refactoring is a worthwhile investment when customers will churn. These large refactoring efforts can take months or sometimes years. That’s my heuristic.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Who doesn’t want to be innovative? But what is product innovation in the first place? The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. And how does it play out in real life?

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 5, 2023

Fintech startups have emerged as one of the most innovative solutions for addressing financial management needs. If you’re thinking of starting your fintech startup, this guide will help you understand the basics of how to get started. While we are discussing this topic, some are now keen on having their fintech Startup.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Repaying Debt - to pay down debt, the team needs more time to invest in reducing the debt. Innovating - craft enough slack in the system to enable the team to transition to this phase, invest in good quality code. Recently, many startups have tried to measure engineering throughput. But there’s much more.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As the premier SaaS conference , SaaStr Annual’s ability to attract top-tier investment firms and the best SaaS Founders creates unparalleled Founder <> Investor networking and learning opportunities. . Austin Innovation Capital. Generation Investment Management. How Women Invest. Megeve Investments.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. The company is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

FastSpring finds inspiration in a cutting-edge incubator for cleantech startups — also known as the LACI. Our exploration of innovative tech often pushes us beyond the beautiful coastline of Santa Barbara. The city’s primary economic growth strategy is to drive innovation in clean technologies. Tell us all about it on Twitter.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The US venture capital ecosystem has grown 40x in dollars from $8b to $320b invested in 10 years. Fueled by this capital, startup company formation rates touched fifteen-year highs in 2021. Web3 is just beginning to blossom, creating new distribution channels that will power another wave of innovation.

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Scytale

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the compliance requirements of running a startup? As a startup founder trying to build your new organization from the ground up there’s a ton to do – And one of the commitments is keeping security compliance regulations and industry standards, and all that red tape! You’re not alone.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once users are in a position to invest in such a service, your SaaS should be the first that comes to mind. Building an organic audience through content marketing is also one of the most cost efficient marketing strategies available to SaaS start-ups that can’t afford to invest in expensive ad placements. Table of Contents.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. But a question founders and teams often ask is when do we start layering in innovation work again that creates new value props. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Zapier grew from a small SaaS startup to a company with over 500 employees over a decade. Adam #18: Invest in a strong hiring and onboarding process from day one. In the early days, Zapier invested a lot into all-hands support. Stephanie #16: Startups are hard enough. Want to know how they did it? . Repeat the cycle .

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2023

to the firms that send over a dozen of their Partners and Associates — everyone who invests in SaaS has a presence at SaaStr Annual. And remember, most VCs will only make a handful of investments each year. From the Founding Partners, Managing Directors and big name SaaS VCs who grace the stage.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 27, 2023

As we enter month 3 CE (ChatGPT Era), I’d like to share a few observations and questions on the ChatGPT phenomenon and what it might mean for SaaS startups. I’m aware that this time is different are considered the four most expensive words in investing, but I wager to say that this is the iPhone moment of AI. What happened?

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SaaSOptics

JUNE 9, 2022

Early access to capital in the beginning stages of a startup is what allows companies to achieve rapid growth and capture market share before it’s too late, which means securing funding could significantly impact your company’s long-term success. In this case, investors would be investing in your idea rather than an MVP.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2021

Like, say, merging the idea of a reality TV docu-series with one of the key use cases of a fast-growing B2B startup. Before, I was working in other startups, working in content marketing, doing lead generation and inbound marketing but with a strong focus on telling brand stories and creating different types of formats of content. .

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2017

In the Wide Lens , Dartmouth Entrepreneurship professor Ron Adner explores the risks associated with innovation. Then there’s co-innovation risk, what might be called chained technology risk. For example, to build a new ML focused microchip, a startup relies on the chip fabrication plant to develop 7nm equipment.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 28, 2015

In response last week’s post on The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015 , in which Bitcoin topped the list, I received many questions about the underlying dynamics of this startup segment. Using Crunchbase data, I analyzed BTC investment patterns over the past 4 years. Which regions? Which stages?

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OnStartups

JUNE 7, 2021

I’ve decided I’m going to invest $1 million in BitClout the blockchain-based, crypto-currency powered social network that is all the rage (at least within some circles). Example: I’ll be investing $100,000 in @bitswap (and here, I mean buying equity/shares in the startup). Invest in $dharmesh (my own creator coin on BitClout).

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2021

If there’s one lesson I’ve learned from leading product at fast-growing startups, it’s that there’s no one way to lead product. I like to equate this stage to Warren Buffett’s famous law of uninterrupted compounding interest—there is a significant difference between investing early and often into an IRA versus starting later in life. .

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Teamgate

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Startups – they can either be exciting, scary or both at the same time. The prospect of getting into business to address a pain point someone or another has experienced can be daunting, and thinking about how to keep your startup sustainable and profitable can also be a little frightening. Make A Worthy (Marketing) Investment.

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